Show Me Your Values
Show Me Your Values is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Before the meeting, decide the topic around which you want players to share stories. Set-up a flat surface area in which you can write and they can post their images. Write the name of the topic in this area.
- Provide the players with tape and several magazines of all genres-enough magazines for each player to rifle through three or four.
- Give everyone 10 minutes to cutout one or more images that represent their perception of the underlying values.
- Ask them to tape their image(s) in the designated area and then quietly reflect on a story associated with the value(s) they represented.
- Ask for volunteers to take turns sharing both their images and their associated story.
- Pay attention as the players describe the values they perceive and write them in the space beside the appropriate image.
- Go over the values you captured and ask the players to look for overlaps and gaps in their perception. Ask follow-up questions about the content and stories to generate further conversation. Let the group absorb and discuss the perceptions they share as well as those they don’t.
- This way it is easier to show, tell and understand perceptions.
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Prompts to use +
Before the meeting, decide the topic around which you want players to share stories. Set-up a flat surface area in which you can write and they can post their images. Write the name of the topic in this area.
Provide the players with tape and several magazines of all genres-enough magazines for each player to rifle through three or four.
Give everyone 10 minutes to cutout one or more images that represent their perception of the underlying values.
Ask them to tape their image(s) in the designated area and then quietly reflect on a story associated with the value(s) they represented.
Ask for volunteers to take turns sharing both their images and their associated story.
Pay attention as the players describe the values they perceive and write them in the space beside the appropriate image.
Run this with your AI assistant +
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.
Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Show Me Your Values. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Before the meeting, decide the topic around which you want players to share stories. Set-up a flat surface area in which you can write and they can post their images. Write the name of the topic in this area.; Provide the players with tape and several magazines of all genres-enough magazines for each player to rifle through three or four.; Give everyone 10 minutes to cutout one or more images that represent their perception of the underlying values.; Ask them to tape their image(s) in the designated area and then quietly reflect on a story associated with the value(s) they represented.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Gamestorming; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (2 sources observed, including Gamestorming, SessionLab.)
- What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.